MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My

[Toni]

Leftist fantasy. Doesn't make it work. Dropping students from inferior schools into superior schools doesn't help. Even as early as grade school.

I don't know how we fix early education (because so much of it is parents and community), but that's where any fix has to be. Anything done later is painting over the rust.

Really.

I know quite a number of people who attended ‘mediocre schools’ who were National Merit scholars.

A good student can be in a poor situation and can benefit from being put in a better one. But rarely were they not a good student in the poor situation.

But that’s not what you said. You said that it’s useless to take a student from a bad school and place them in a good school.

Seems to me that if a school is actually any good, it can help all students, including those who came from ‘poor’ schools. After all, children don’t choose their parents, much less their neighborhood or circumstances. Nor did their parents before them.

You are correct that early education is key. Yet we know that adults, when given opportunities to learn that they did not have as children still can learn many things. Human beings can be quite resilient.

My observation is that a great deal of how good a student someone is can be quite dependent upon expectations of that person’s abilities and talents. People often rise —or sink to meet expectations.

Often, those who are presumed to be not worth much are really only waiting for someone to see and help their promise bloom.

 

[Politesse]

I believe the point was that the pot was calling the kettle black. That you missed the point is not ironic, even given your post 788.

You're using a racist metaphor -- it's implying there's something wrong with being black. For shame! [/Politesse]

This one's racially based?? I thought "black" in this case was dirty with soot from fire.

It was a joke -- I was making fun of Poli seeing a racist lurking behind every curtain.

Only the racist ones.

 

[Politesse]

The one thing that's a little baffling is they chose to erase the Hispanic guy, rather than the White guy in the middle. Did Hispanic males drop below even White males on the progressive stack? Or maybe they thought the Hispanic guy was also White?!

Altering the Asian girl's face had to sting a little for her. I guess AI (or the photo editor) wasn't too fond of her chubby cheeks. I kinda liked her better the original way.

How is what you describe "DEI" in any way?

That's about making things look different than they are. You've heard of the token black guy? Looks like we have a token white guy here.

How is misrepresenting the racial composition of their school expanding diversity, equity, or inclusion? In no definition of equity is "putting students in digital blackface to appease Marketing" a recommended practice. Indeed, Stanford's own ethnic studies faculty are furious about this incident. While white nationalist assholes are clearly delighted and amused. What should that tell you?

 

[Politesse]

Tribal" thinking is about my group over other groups rather than looking at the whole of society.

Why does that word mean that thing?